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Millions of city dwellers are at risk of falling behind in education, employment and health care because they lack adequate home internet access.
The digital divide in the United States refers to inequalities between individuals, households, and other groups of different demographic and socioeconomic levels in access to information and communication technologies ("ICTs") and in the knowledge and skills needed to effectively use the information gained from connecting.
The digital divide in Nigeria is impacted by education, lack of electrical infrastructure, income, and urban drift, as well as a variety of other social and political factors contribute to Nigeria's growing digital divide. [40] [41] There have been efforts to reduce the digital divide by both government agencies and technology corporations. [42 ...
The first of three reports is titled "Falling Through the Net: A Survey of the "Have Nots" in Rural and Urban America" (1995), [67] the second is "Falling Through the Net II: New Data on the Digital Divide" (1998), [68] and the final report "Falling Through the Net: Defining the Digital Divide" (1999). [69]
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Schradie named this phenomenon "digital production inequality." [18] Schradie mapped out many of these concepts in a journal article "The digital production gap: The digital divide and Web 2.0 collide" published in the April 2011 issue of Poetics. [19] In the article, Schradie identified a "class-based gap among producers of online content.
One Laptop per Child (OLPC) was an attempt by an American non-profit to narrow the digital divide. [44] This organization, founded in 2005, provided inexpensively produced "XO" laptops (dubbed the "$100 laptop", though actual production costs vary) to children residing in poor and isolated regions within developing countries.
The digital divide in Colombia refers to inequalities between individuals, households, and other groups of different demographic and socioeconomic levels. More specifically, differences in access to information and communication technologies ("ICTs") and in the knowledge and skills needed to effectively use the information gained from connecting .